This season ISS is tracking only 10 proposals seeking to declassify boards, a two-third drop from the number of proposals in 2014. This is likely attributable to the absence of assistance...

Boston-based biotech Intarcia Therapeutics announced this week that it had secured $225 million in aprivate synthetic royalty financing. The financing is in the form of limited recourse n...

On April 29, 2015, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring U.S. public companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the company’s fi...

Dodd- Frank directs the Commission to require public companies to disclose a clear description of the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and the financial performan...

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to express her concerns about the increase in stock buybacks and asks for information on Rule 10b-18, including analytic ...

SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Adopts Final Regulation A+ Rules SEC Grants No-Action Relief From Section 206(4) to 16th Amendment Advisors LLC SEC Grants No Action Relief from Sections 12...

At ten companies where shareholders have cast votes on proxy access shareholder proposals this season, four companies received more votes in favor of the proposal than against it, while a...

The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments requiring companies to disclose the relationship between executiv...

Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solicitation filed by the California Public Employees Retirement Syste...

Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal  for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We previously summarized the rule proposal here. Our comment letter...